Sydney had no idea what was on the CD because there were no images or labels.
However, she did not give up. She brought the CD into the study and inserted it into the disc drive of her laptop.
There was only one folder in it when she opened it.
When she clicked on it, she saw a video file.
She clicked the mouse again to play the video. Then, she saw a young but pale and morbid face on the computer screen.
Sydney was stunned when she saw that face. Then she covered her mouth with her hands as tears streamed down her cheek. She said in a trembling voice. "Mom..." It was Harry's wife, Leanna Foster, who appeared on the screen.
Sydney was only five years old when her mother died of cancer.
Sydney reached out her trembling hand and touched her mother's face on the screen.
She wouldn't pull her hand back, even though she knew it wasn't real. Her gaze never shifted as she tried to touch Leanna's face.
Leanna was sitting in a ward. She was dressed in a standard blue-and-white striped patient gown with no hair on her head.
Sydney knew that when she was five years old, her mother was diagnosed with cancer and was hospitalized.
Looking at her mother on the screen, Sydney cried again.
It had been twenty-one years since she had last seen her mother.
Moreover, her mother was still alive in the video.
"Mom, I miss you." Sydney's hand holding the mouse was shaking, and her voice choked.
Leanna smiled softly as she faced the screen. It seemed as if she sensed that Sydney was missing her. "Syd, I may be long gone by the time you see this video, but I want to tell you that I will always, always keep an eye on you from the skies above."
"Mom..." Sydney finally couldn't take it any longer and leaned over the table, crying her heart out.
The video went on. Leanna coughed a few times. Her face turned even paler, and her voice sounded weaker. "I'd like to apologize to you, Syd. I apologize for keeping the truth from you. Your father and I never revealed your true identity to you. We hope you can forgive us."
Sydney cried and bit her lower lip in silence as she looked up.
Leanna coughed again, but this time, Sydney noticed a hand reach out and hand a glass of water to Leanna.
She noticed that it was a man's hand at once, and there was a black mole on the thumb.
She realized that it was her father's hand!
It turned out that her father was also in the video.
Sydney looked more excited.
She wondered if she could see her father later.
While thinking, Sydney heard a gentle but sorrowful male voice in the video. "Have some water, honey."
He was really my father!
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